Dr. Charles Clancy is a professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, and is Director of the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology. With over 70 faculty and staff, the Hume Center leverages $10M to $15M in annual grants and contracts to engage 350 students in research and experiental learning focused in national security and technology. Additionally, Dr. Clancy leads efforts in developing and expanding the university’s role in cybersecurity research and education. Dr. Clancy is an internationally-recognized expert on the security of wireless and cellular networks, and has testified to Congress on cybersecurity issues.

Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2010, Dr. Clancy spent seven years working for the US Department of Defense in a variety of research, engineering, and operations roles. The majority of his time was spent as a researcher with the Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, a federal research laboratory at the University of Maryland. There he led government research programs in wireless communications, with an emphasis on software-defined and cognitive radio. His research focused on efficient use of commodity processors for software-defined radio, and security implications involved in military use of cognitive radio technologies. During this time, Dr. Clancy was also heavily involved in wireless authentication and authorization protocol standardization, and held leadership positions within the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Dr. Clancy received his BS in Computer Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2001, his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2002, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2006. His studies focused on information-theoretic foundations of communications and security.

An avid entrepreneur, Dr. Clancy is co-founder of a number of companies, including HawkEye 360, focused on commercial space-based RF sensing; Federated Wireless, focused on next-generation wireless and spectrum sharing; Optio Labs, focused in mobile security; and Stochastic Research, a technical consulting firm. Additionally he serves as a founding advisor to DeepSig, a company focused on the intersection of machine learning and signal processing. These companies have collectively raised over $120M in venture capital.

Dr. Clancy is a Senior Member of the Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and holds leadership positions within IEEE’s Communications and Signal Processing Societies. He has previously served as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. In 2015, Dr. Clancy was elected to be a member of the prestigious AFCEA Intelligence Committee.

Dr. Clancy is co-author to over 200 peer-reviewed technical publications in academic conferences and journals and over 20 patents. His books include MIMO Radar Waveform Design for Spectrum Sharing with Cellular Systems (Springer 2016), Cellular Communications Systems in Congested Environments (Springer 2017), Spectrum Sharing between Radars and Communication Systems (Springer 2017), and Resource Allocation with Carrier Aggregation in Cellular Networks (Springer 2018).

As General Manager of SecureG, Damon drives the adoption of the world’s most secure root of trust across government and industry initiatives, including The United States Air Force, SunSpec, and CTIA.

Damon has more than twenty years of experience driving cybersecurity excellence with a focus on PKI ecosystems for IoT and mobile networks. Damon established his PKI expertise with VeriSign and Symantec, where he was responsible for more than 1B IoT devices and 350M subscribers. Damon’s extensive PKI experience includes Sectigo, PrimeKey – Keyfactor, and Utimaco.

Damon is regularly invited to speak at security conferences and participate in panel discussions, where he shares his PKI expertise. Damon is co-author of US Patent 10560448 — One-touch secure on-boarding of OOB IoT devices. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business management and administration from the Eberhardt School of Business at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. In his free time as a husband and a father, Damon enjoys racing automobiles and vintage car shows.

As CTO of SecureG, Todd leads the development of bespoke PKI solutions, aligned closely with government and industry working groups and standards, such as accelerating Zero Trust security strategies.

Todd has more than 20 years of experience securing and optimizing mission-essential networks, such as 5G, with PKI. Prior to SecureG, he was closely involved in the merger between Movik Networks and Anova Data, where he served as the VP of Solution Architecture for the former and the latter. Todd’s networking experience includes Cisco and Juniper.

Todd is devoted to cybersecurity education and has authored multiple books and created training facilities for security operations. He earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical, electronics, and communications engineering from Colorado State University. Todd is a family man who enjoys F1 racing.

As CISO of SecureG, James Gorman is committed to the highest standards of confidentiality, integrity, and availability for the world’s most secure root of trust.

James has more than 30 years of executive-level cybersecurity and network engineering experience with a mission to enable digital transformation and innovation. James began his career in the US Navy as a Cryptologic Technician and held executive positions at Cable and Wireless, SecureNet, and Transaction Network Services. He has successfully led teams through multiple audits, certifications, and migrations, delivering scalable, resilient, and cost-effective outcomes, such as universal security technologies for 5G networks. 

James is passionate about staying ahead of the curve and delivering robust, reliable, quantum-safe PKI solutions and strategies.

John “JJ” Jefferies, CMO

As CMO of SecureG, “JJ” evangelizes the renaissance of PKI — assuring digital trust across new and exciting use cases, such as authenticating images and voice to combat misinformation.

JJ has over 20 years of marketing experience at the intersection of cybersecurity and encryption. Before SecureG, JJ was CMO of CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics company, where he was instrumental in positioning it for its acquisition by Mastercard. As an internet pioneer, he participated in the original S/MIME Interoperability testing. At IronKey, he created the category for tamperproof mobile hardware encryption devices and evangelized trusted supply chains. At the Samsung Innovation Center, JJ was responsible for marketing a PKI-secured IoT platform. He is also Co-chair of TRISA, a cryptocurrency compliance non-profit that operates a bespoke PKI.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University and earned his MBA from Ivey Business School at Western University. As a husband, father, and retired high-speed driving instructor, JJ enjoys exploring mountain roads with his son and surfing with his daughter.